Tshisekedi re-elected DR Congo president as opposition calls vote a ‘farce’
Al Jazeera
Felix Tshisekedi wins a landslide victory to secure a second term in election the opposition has labelled a ‘farce’.
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) President Felix Tshisekedi won re-election with more than 70 percent of the vote, the country’s election commission has announced.
The preliminary results of the December 20 election were announced in the capital, Kinshasa, on Sunday amid demands from the opposition and some civil society groups for the vote to be rerun due to massive logistical problems that put the validity of the outcome into question.
Businessman Moise Katumbi finished behind Tshisekedi with 18 percent of the vote.
Martin Fayulu, a former oil company executive, received 5 percent, while Nobel Peace Prize winner Denis Mukwege, a physician renowned for treating women brutalised by sexual violence in eastern DR Congo, got less than 1 percent.
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